Villain Boss Chapter 236
Translated by Digitalian (ko-fi)
Chapter 236 A Gift To Him
A bullet grazed her arm, and the blood seeped out, staining her clothes red. Jiang Ran was completely unaware. She grabbed the chair and slammed it down twice to make sure Huo Xuan was no threat before putting the chair down.
She shook her uninjured hand and did a stretch. "Ouch, I haven't been active for too long, so my movements have become slower."
That was the truth.
Given her agility from daily training at Xiling base, it would have been impossible for her to have been injured by Huo Xuan's gun.
Before she could let go, her hand was grabbed. Tu Su's voice was urgent as he said, "The injury on your hand! Let's go to the hospital, I'll bandage it for you."
After saying that, he grabbed her and tried to leave.
Jiang Ran quickly stopped him. "Mr. Tu Su, what should we do with this person?"
"Someone will come up and take care of it, don't worry about him." Tu Su glanced with disgust at Huo Xuan, whose life was hanging in the balance, and looked away. "Take care of your injury first."
"But..." I heard noises. Someone else was climbing onto your balcony again.
Before she could speak, the door was opened again, and a group of superhumans rushed in.
"Mr. Tu Su! Are you alright?"
The man at the front immediately stopped shouting when he saw the two people engaged in a tussle in the living room.
The group looked at each other in bewilderment.
Why was Mr. Tu Su with a girl? Was he forbidding them from going upstairs because he had a girl with him?
This girl... tsk, tsk, she was really beautiful. No wonder she could win over a cold-hearted man like Mr. Tu Su.
Wait, if these two were flirting, what was that gunshot just now?
"You've come at the right time." Not knowing what the superhumans were thinking, Tu Su gestured with his eyes. "Take that guy to Huo Sichan and tell him it's a gift from Miss Jiang."
That guy? Which guy?
The superhumans belatedly noticed that someone was lying behind the sofa, barely breathing.
"This is... Huo Xuan?"
"It really is Huo Xuan! What's Huo Xuan doing here? The captain and the others are still searching for him under martial law throughout the city."
"This man is indeed after Mr. Tu Su. Never mind, let’s arrest him and send him to the compound first."
"..."
Amidst the commotion, Tu Su dragged Jiang Ran downstairs.
The apartment wasn’t far from the hospital. Tu Su walked hurriedly, not even bothering to notice the hem of his clothes that were soaked by the mud and rain.
……
"Is Huo Xuan dead?"
The superhumans were originally going to drag Huo Xuan away, but after moving him slightly, they discovered that he had several cuts on his body.
On his shoulders, arms, and waist... The wounds were long and thin, their depth unknown, which made them afraid to move him carelessly to avoid tearing the wounds.
"What weapon caused this injury? Can any of you tell?"
While waiting for the doctor, the superhumans, bored, began to examine the wounds on the injured Huo Xuan.
"I don't know, it looks like a very thin blade."
"What kind of blade can cut that deep? If it's too thin, there won't be a point of leverage."
"If I didn't know it was impossible, I would have thought it was cut from a kite string."
"Kite string?"
"Yes. I remember before the disaster, a friend and I were driving to go fishing when we came across a kite string that hadn't been untied. It cut the car's rearview mirror, but luckily we weren't going fast."
"Oh, I've heard about this kind of news before."
"But that's not right. If you use a string, how much strength would that take? Look at Mr. Tu Su and that young lady just now. Neither of them seems like a strong person."
"That's not necessarily true. Marshal Huo values Mr. Tu Su so highly. Maybe he's just hiding his true abilities?"
"..."
While the group was joking around, the doctor arrived with a stretcher, and they moved Huo Xuan onto the stretcher.
They arranged for a few people to accompany the doctor to the hospital, and sent two more people to the Huo family’s compound to inform Huo Lingyin that Huo Xuan had been arrested.
……
Tu Su treated the wound very professionally. Even though no anesthesia was used, Jiang Ran didn't feel much pain when he stitched it up.
"Sorry, please bear with us, the hospital is temporarily full."
He gently comforted her while quickly stitching up her wound.
"The wound is deep, but it’ll heal faster after being stitched up."
“I know.” Jiang Ran looked around the office. “This is your office? Aren’t you from the research lab? You have an office at the hospital too?”
"Before the disaster, I was a doctor." When talking about his past, Tu Su glossed over the details. "If the research lab wasn't busy, I’d occasionally come here to help out."
This was their second meeting, but they chatted casually as if they had known each other for a long time, creating a harmonious atmosphere.
"I heard from Huo Sichan that you know my father?"
She climbed onto his balcony tonight, so he already guessed that she had learned about his past.
Tu Su didn’t deny it. "I know him."
"You were my father's assistant. Why haven't I seen you before?"
"You've seen me before." Tu Su swallowed the words he was about to say.
Looking into Jiang Ran's dark eyes, his gaze darkened, and he said in a hoarse voice, "I... am just an insignificant assistant. It's normal that you haven't seen me before."
Jiang Ran raised an eyebrow in disbelief. "Really?" She clearly didn't believe him.
"The wound is treated." Before she could ask any more questions, Tu Su packed up his tools and turned around. "Professor Si must be looking for you everywhere. You should go back as soon as possible."
"Huh?" Jiang Ran was stunned. "I haven't asked anything yet, Mr. Tu Su..." She climbed the wall, and got injured. If she went back without asking anything, that wouldn’t be worth it.
Tu Su sighed helplessly. "What do you want to ask?"
He was far more patient with her than with others.
Fearing he might change his mind, Jiang Ran immediately asked, "When my father passed away, everyone told me it was an accident, but later I found some things that overturned the accident theory. Mr. Tu Su, you were my father's assistant. What was the truth of what happened back then? Can you tell me?"
Tu Su didn't turn around, his back to her. "I don't know. I left the lab before Professor Jiang's accident happened."
"Oh, I see." Jiang Ran then asked, "Do you also know Si Nian? She..."
Tu Su suddenly turned around, his eyes cold, and asked, word by word, "She came to find you?" If one listened closely, one could hear the gnashing hatred in his voice.
Jiang Ran had only wanted to sound him out, but she didn’t expect him to react so strongly. She shook her head. "No. I just remember when I was little, my father gave my mother a box of documents and told her to take the documents to a person named Si Nian."
"Did your mother go?"
“My mother... passed away,” Jiang Ran said. “She committed suicide not long after my father’s accident.”
"That’s impossible!" Tu Su blurted out. "She..." How could she have committed suicide for love? She promised Professor Jiang that she would protect what he had once defended with her life.
Facing those eyes that were so similar to Shen Muxin's, Tu Su swallowed back the rest of his words.
He took a deep breath and spoke again, his voice returning to the coldness he had when they first met. "It's very late now. Go back and rest. We can talk about it tomorrow."
He had stayed in the Huo family’s compound for too long, so long that he had become out of touch with the outside world. He needed to sort things out, remember the past clearly, and then tell her about it properly.
